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History Events on July 15

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History Events on July 15

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Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.

#Vietnam_War

In 1966

Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine.

#Sri_Lankan_Civil_War

In 1998

Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

#Pakistan

In 2002

First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.

#First_Crusade

In 1099

An Lushan Rebellion: Emperor Xuanzong of Tang is ordered by his Imperial Guards to execute chancellor Yang Guozhong by forcing him to commit suicide or face a mutiny. General An Lushan has other members of the emperor's family killed.

#An_Lushan_Rebellion

In 756

The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.

#Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre

In 1149

The Polish Parliament establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.

#Second_Polish_Republic

In 1920

In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.

#Emil_Kraepelin

In 1910

King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop Stephen Langton.

#John,_King_of_England

In 1207

Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.

#Nobel_Prize

In 1955

First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.

#Boeing_367-80

In 1954

The CSS Arkansas, the most effective ironclad on the Mississippi River, battles with Union ships commanded by Admiral David Farragut, severely damaging three ships and sustaining heavy damage herself. The encounter changed the complexion of warfare on the Mississippi and helped to reverse Rebel fortunes on the river in the summer of 1862.

#CSS_Arkansas

In 1862

In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).

#Seattle

In 1916

The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years.

#Spanish_Inquisition

In 1834

Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan.

#Japanese_Communist_Party

In 1922

Space Race: Apollo-Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.

#Space_Race

In 1975

The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.

#Rosetta_Stone

In 1799

U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech".

#President_of_the_United_States

In 1979

State of North Borneo, today in Sabah, Malaysia, annexed by the United Kingdom.

#North_Borneo

In 1946

A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.

#Belgian_Air_Component

In 1996

Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.

#Napoleonic_Wars

In 1815

John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England.

#John_Ball_(priest)

In 1381

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.

#Gilbert_du_Motier,_Marquis_de_Lafayette

In 1789

World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.

#World_War_I

In 1918

The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

#Stratovolcano

In 1888

In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.

#Nicosia

In 1974

Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War: Battle of Grunwald: The allied forces of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the army of the Teutonic Order.

#Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic_War

In 1410

Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.

#Ralph_Waldo_Emerson

In 1838

Dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in ancient Rome

#Temple_of_Castor_and_Pollux

In 484 BC

Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.

#July_Revolt_of_1927

In 1927

A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, Italy.

#Basilica_of_Saint_Paul_Outside_the_Walls

In 1823

"American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.

#Taliban

In 2002

Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories.

#Rupert's_Land

In 1870

Muhammad XII is crowned the twenty-second and last Nasrid king of Granada.

#Muhammad_XII_of_Granada

In 1482

Titus and his armies breach the walls of Jerusalem. (17th of Tammuz in the Hebrew calendar).

#Titus

In 70

Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.

#Aleksei_Chirikov

In 1741

Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup.

In 2016

A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others.

In 2014

Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched.

In 2006

AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.

In 2003

An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured.

In 1983

The United Red Army is founded in Japan.

In 1971

The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.

In 1959

Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.

In 1870

Pike expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.

In 1806

Baruch Laibov and Alexander Voznitzin are burned alive in St. Petersburg, Russia. Vonitzin had converted to Judaism with Laibov's help, with the consent of Empress Anna Ivanovna.

In 1738

Swedish-Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.

In 1240

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